[Dovecot] Visible temp files as Imap Folder in INBOX

[Timo Sirainen]

On 8.10.2010, at 19.47, Mark Moseley wrote:

> Perhaps a good feature request from us NFS+maildir users would be for
> dovecot to ignore anything like .nfs[0-9]{20,} (or other nfs silly
> file patterns, if there are any), since there's almost no way
> someone's really got a folder called that.

Well .. maybe it's unlikely, but I don't really like that idea.

> Presumably that'd be too
> expensive to do on every single file, but I'm guessing relatively
> painless to do on the top-level directory, when dovecot is building
> the list of IMAP folders, esp versus having to stat() them all.

There's maildir_stat_dirs setting, which can be used to get rid of this problem. Sure, it makes it slower, but LIST isn't really something that clients do a whole lot (although I guess in a webmail it's worse).